This Prize, awarded for the first time in 1971 to Tokuro Suziki for his brilliant studies on hearing loss in children, has been given in the following years to renowned members of the international scientific community who had provided a substantial contribution to knowledge in the otological and audiological field. Among others, James Jerger (1975), Michele Arslan (1977), Ettore Bocca (1979), Jean Marie Aran (1981) and (1992) have been awarded.

The most recent International Prize has been awarded in 2005 by the A. Charles Holland Foundation to Graeme Clark of the Melbourne University “for the pioneering research and development of the first clinically successful cochlear implant that had a major impact on auditory habilitation and rehabilitation and Otology in general”.